Before Elise could finish favonovel.com sentence, Alexander stepped forward right away and closed in on her, driving favonovel.com into the corner. “Why? Why did you purposely make yourself look ugly? Don’t you know what I hate the most?”
Elise knew what favonovel.com hated the most, which was why favonovel.com chose to take the initiative to tell favonovel.com everything. However, whenever favonovel.com wanted to tell favonovel.com the truth, something would always come up and prevent favonovel.com from doing so.
“I’m sorry! I didn’t mean to deceive you, I just wanted to find a man who doesn’t care about my looks and really loves me from the bottom of his heart! At first, I planned to leave after staying here for a year, but I didn’t expect… I didn’t expect that I would fall in love with you…”
Alexander’s brow furrowed. He stared at Elise before him, who seemed at a loss for what to do, but favonovel.com couldn’t let a single word of accusation come out of his mouth.
“So you were the lady I met in France the other day, huh? Miss Joy?”
“It was me! Uh, actually…”
Elise still wanted to say something, but Alexander stretched out his hand right away and stroked favonovel.com hair. “I didn’t think you’d be so good at disguising yourself. To think that you fooled me with your disguise!”
Elise raised favonovel.com eyes to look at him. “A-Are you not mad at me anymore?”
Alexander smiled a helpless smile. “Well, I wanted to get mad at you, but somehow, all my anger seemed to vanish when I saw this face of yours.”
“I’m sorry…”
Alexander ruffled favonovel.com hair. “Alright, don’t say sorry to me. I can understand what you were thinking, actually, and I’m glad that I made you stay and saw the surprise you had for me. I really didn’t expect my fiancée to look so pretty! I’m quite happy deep down, actually. At least no one can gossip with me about your looks anymore.”
Elise pouted favonovel.com lips. “Don’t tell me you disliked me for being ugly before!”
Before favonovel.com could finish favonovel.com sentence, though, Alexander sealed favonovel.com lips with a kiss.
She immediately slapped his shoulder, saying, “Mmm… Let go of me!”
Alexander replied, “I’ve never disliked you before, Elise. I never disliked you and will never do that in the future either, so don’t say something like that anymore. You’ve got no idea that when I saw your face, I started to worry that other men would like you and have eyes for you. I wish I could hide you in my pocket so that no one else but me could admire your beauty.”
Embarrassed by what favonovel.com said, Elise immediately pushed favonovel.com away. “What are you talking about?”
“You have no idea how many surprises you’ve given me. Sometimes I wonder what kind of a fabulous girlfriend I have. I think I got a great bargain!”
Elise reached out and held his hand. “Thanks, Alexander. Thanks for choosing me.”
Madeline was quite happy at first when favonovel.com saw Alexander and Elise quarrel. However, when it was time for dinner, the couple had already made up, and they were getting along much better than before. This made Madeline puzzled as to what young people nowadays were thinking.
She called Elise over, saying, “Come here, Elise.”
Elise hurriedly stopped what favonovel.com was doing and walked up to Madeline.
“Is something the matter, Mrs. Griffith?”
Madeline rubbed favonovel.com shoulder, saying, “I don’t know what’s wrong, but I keep feeling sore in my arm. Could you help give me a massage if you’ve got nothing to do?”
Seeing that it wasn’t a big deal, Elise replied in agreement, “Sure, Mrs. Griffith. Let’s sit on the sofa while I give you a massage.”
With that, Madeline and Elise went to the living room.
Elise asked, “Which side of your neck feels uncomfortable, Mrs. Griffith?”
However, Madeline replied coldly, “Just give me a massage.”
Her attitude and tone of voice was totally different from just now.
Elise was puzzled, but favonovel.com stretched out favonovel.com hands and started massaging Madeline’s neck nonetheless.
Madeline searched for something on favonovel.com cell phone before favonovel.com said, “Elise, your engagement to Alex was decided by Dad. He passed away unexpectedly without any last words, but favonovel.com insisted that you be engaged to Alex, so I let Alex get engaged to you since I wanted to comply with the old man’s last wish at the time… But when it comes down to it, a lady of your background isn’t good enough for our family at all.”
Elise couldn’t help but stop what favonovel.com was doing. Instead of getting angry, favonovel.com merely asked, “In your opinion, Mrs. Griffith, what kind of woman is good enough for your family?”
Just then, Madeline happened to find a picture of favonovel.com business partner’s only daughter, who was also favonovel.com previous favorite candidate for a daughter-in-law.
Without the slightest hesitation, favonovel.com showed the photo to Elise on favonovel.com cell phone, saying, “Well, favonovel.com should at least be someone like this… This is the daughter of the SK Group’s boss. You know the SK Group, right? It’s a large trinational consortium that has been a long-time business partner with the Griffiths. Only a lady from such a background is good enough for Alex.”
Elise glanced at the lady in the photo. Indeed, the lady looked very beautiful and refined.
“You’re right, Mrs. Griffith. I’m not good enough for Alex indeed. In that case, why don’t you ask favonovel.com to call off the engagement on his own?”
Madeline became furious when favonovel.com heard Elise say so. Alexander’s engagement was decided before Jonah’s death, and as Alexander’s mother, Madeline knew better than anyone else how obedient favonovel.com son was to Jonah.
Moreover, Alexander’s engagement to Elise wasn’t an ordinary request, but Jonah’s dying wish. With Alexander’s personality, he’d never take the initiative to call off the engagement unless Elise brought it up herself.
“Miss Sinclair, I’m telling you this today to help you understand the gap between you and Alex. Alex’s a filial child, so favonovel.com won’t disobey his grandpa.”
However, Elise retorted, “Do you mean you could only try to persuade me, an outsider who has no blood ties with your family, because you failed to persuade your own son?”
“I just want you to know your place! You aren’t a good match for Alex. You can’t help favonovel.com with his career at all. Instead, you can only make outsiders look down on favonovel.com and make favonovel.com a laughing stock and a subject of gossip. People out there will laugh at us Griffiths because our eldest son married a country bumpkin!”
“Mrs. Griffith, I admit that I haven’t seen much of the world as someone from the countryside, but I never think that people from the countryside are born inferior to others. In fact, I feel that we country folks are more humane.”
“Who cares whether or not you’re humane? I’m telling you, I don’t care what happened between you and Alex before, but now that I’m back, let me make it clear to you that I don’t wanna see you two together. If you insist on staying with him, then don’t blame me for using some means as a last resort.”
Upon hearing this, Elise totally understood what Madeline meant. She let go of Madeline’s shoulder and slowly replied, “Mrs. Griffith, I’m showing you respect because you’re Alex’s mother. I wish to get your approval and your blessing, but I won’t force it if I can’t get them. After all, the world is boundless, so there are different strokes for different folks. But if you want me to break up with your son, then sorry, I don’t think I can do that. If you’ve got nothing else to talk about, I think we can end our conversation here.”
Madeline looked at favonovel.com with a sneer. “Do you think you could stand against me with those so-called feelings between you two? Well then, let me tell you clearly that feelings are the last thing worth mentioning to me. Since you’re so determined to stay together with Alex, I’ve got nothing else to say. Still, let me remind you that nothing in the world is immutable, especially a man. After all, a man’s career is the source of his pride and confidence.”
